November/December 2024
Fact vs. Fiction
Google AI: Can you trust its advice about foods and health?
Want to know which foods are good for your memory, metabolism, or more? If you ask Google, the answers at the top of the page are from its “AI Overview.” Is Google’s artificial intelligence credible...or just popular? We checked AI’s sources. They may surprise you.
Fact vs. Fiction
Bone broth, detoxes, and other wellness fads that won't quit
Some wellness trends are a blip on the radar, fading into the recesses of the internet as quickly as they appeared. (Celery juice, anyone?) Others have serious staying power. Here’s a handful of potions, powders...and one reputed poison...that have secured a foothold in the wellness zeitgeist.
Healthy Eating
How to order a healthy takeout meal from any restaurant
Physical Activity
Lower your blood pressure with diet and exercise
Preventing Disease
Pop Quiz!
Healthy Eating
Winter fruits in season: Don’t miss ‘em
Food Labeling
Play the ingredient game!
Healthy Eating
10 food swaps to save money on groceries
These 10 matchups between competing nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins can help you save money on groceries and shave dollars off your supermarket bill. Sometimes, less is more.
The Healthy Cook's winter produce recipes
Quick Studies
A snapshot of the latest research on diet, exercise, and more
What's the right way to take your blood pressure? Can all beans and peas lower your LDL? Are broccoli or carrots better at lowering your blood pressure? We look at those new studies, plus others on sleep apnea, tinnitus, blood pressure, heart disease risk, and more.